How to Use upper respiratory in a Sentence

upper respiratory

adjective

• The team found more virus in the lungs of human corpses than in the upper respiratory tract.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• This first takes place in the upper respiratory tract, which includes the nose, mouth, larynx and bronchi.
  — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2020
• Or, according to Swartzberg, the virus may be present in just one part of the upper respiratory tract, but not throughout.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020
• These include headache, chills, swelling of the lymph nodes, upper respiratory tract symptoms such as cough, sore throat and fever and fatigue.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
• Inside the human body, the virus is constantly replicating in the upper respiratory tract -- in the nose, the sinuses, the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
• By then, there is no longer live virus in your upper respiratory system.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2020
• In mild cases of the flu, the virus enters your body via the nose or mouth and infects the upper respiratory tract: the nasal cavity, sinuses, throat, and larynx.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, SELF, 25 Oct. 2022
• This was true for Katie Boateng, who lost her sense of smell due to an upper respiratory infection during her first year of college.
  — Sharon Waters, SELF, 3 Mar. 2021
• The spike protein allows the virus to dock onto the cells lining the human upper respiratory system.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2020
• Gobert had been tested for the flu, strep throat and an upper respiratory infection in the morning but his symptoms lessened as the day went on.
  — Giana Han, al, 12 Mar. 2020
• The novel coronavirus hasn’t been shown to appear in any of these organs—besides of course the lungs, the upper respiratory tract, and sometimes within lymph nodes.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2020
• Most of the puppies showed signs of upper respiratory infection, and one puppy had wounds.
  — Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2021
• Murray has missed the past three games with an upper respiratory illness.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2022
• Even an upper respiratory infection, which caused Mays to cough up phlegm that smelled like cleaning chemicals, didn't seem odd at the time.
  — Molly Rauch, Good Housekeeping, 16 Feb. 2016
• These bacteria attach to the cilia -- the tiny, hair-like structures found on the surface of cells – of the upper respiratory system and release toxins.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 May 2024
• Joy had a wound around her neck and an upper respiratory infection.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 28 Dec. 2019
• The variants are causing more upper respiratory, cold and flu-like symptoms, including fever, night sweats and sore throat.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2022
• Some lab studies suggest that the variant, which excels at infecting cells in the upper respiratory tract, struggles to target the cells deeper in the lungs.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Jan. 2022
• Three 8-week-old kittens came with in with their eyes shut from goo likely caused by upper respiratory infections.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2018
• Because people infected with the delta variant have far more of the virus in the nose and upper respiratory tract, the importance of mask-wearing has become paramount.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2021
• The necropsies revealed mild impacts on the animals’ lungs and upper respiratory tracts, but the animals never showed symptoms during the course of the study.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• Okafor did not attend the game due to an upper respiratory infection.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Other spike protein mutations, including one called D614G that has been seen in the U.S., allow the virus to replicate better in the upper respiratory tract of mice, rather than the lower tract.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2020
• Researchers found the most virus in the lungs, as opposed to the upper respiratory tract, and said gases that build up after death can be released through any orifice, including the mouth, and may carry disease.
  — Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
• Instead, tests found viruses that cause the common cold and other mild upper respiratory infections, the study said.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
• And the new variant, which seems to favor the upper respiratory tract, appears to cause treatable but serious crouplike symptoms that are very tough for the littlest kids to take, Kalu told me.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Lang says that anyone with a fever, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, unexpected aches and pains, or upper respiratory symptoms needs to stay home, period.
  — Nina Bahadur, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2020
• The range of possible symptoms is wide but centers on the upper respiratory system.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 May 2022
• In the three human cases, two people experienced conjunctivitis, or pink eye, and the third had symptoms of a mild upper respiratory infection.
  — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024
• This third case—also in Michigan but from a different farm—reported upper respiratory symptoms, including cough, congestion, and sore throat, as well as eye discomfort and watery discharge, but not conjunctivitis.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024